On October 21st, our new film had its premiere in Nuremberg, in the historic court room of the Nuremberg trials – with a fantastic protagonist:

International Nuremberg Principles AcademyPeace Through JusticeThe Legacy Of Thomas Buergenthal

A film by Sabine Jainski & Ilona Kalmbach, 45 min.

The documentary presents the life and legacy of Judge Thomas Buergenthal, Honorary President of the Nuremberg Princinples Academy, 70 years after the adoption of those principles and the Declaration of Human Rights: seeking for accountability without revenge, and promoting human rights worldwide. It also shows the work of the Academy in dealing with Crimes Against Humanity in our times, and training young law professionals. Read more →

So what about young people? There are many more seniors in Europe than juniors – which means they do not count as voters, they are just too few. Politicians are more interested in seniors, who vote regularly. So how can young people engage politically – and defend the interests of their genereation? Watch our new documentary in arte on youth activism, 50 years after the revolts of 1968.

In the 1960s students across Europe and America took to the streets to rebel against dominant hierarchies, rigid institutions and war. Many were convinced that revolution was around the corner. 50 years on, what do the youth of Europe aspire to?

Living together, growing old together

„We laugh a lot, we do a lot together, I’m dancing, I’m doing Qi Gong, that literature meeting. It’s so much alive!“ says Marieluise Bitter, living in the Beginenhof in Berlin. “Here everybody helps the others, so you can get really old, like 93, 94”, says Anne Demérus from Färdknäppen house in Stockholm, and her husband Per adds: “Even 100!”.

But living together is not so easy, as Les ToitMoiNous in Villeneuve d’Ascq know after a few years of struggle for their communal house: “We thought we were a small group of people who wanted to build their house together and decide together, but that was a complete utopia“, says former journalist Régis Verley who tried to set up a transgenerational co-housing project in northern France.

Discover those projects in the second part of our documentary series The best is yet to come in ARTE on April 15th!